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Thursday, 1 June 2017

Paris climate agreement redux

The US President announced that America would indeed be withdrawing from the Paris Agreement. His official reason is that it protects American jobs and workers and prevents the country from becoming a laughingstock but his election made it a laughingstock.

The world - and even Americans in general - does not really care about the protection of coal mining jobs in Kentucky and West Virginia nor about the profits of the president's corporate cronies, which is the real reason he's carried out his "promise" to withdraw. That, and because he wants to undo everything President Obama achieved.

This childish and vindictive administration really needs to be reigned in and removed; unfortunately, while his party controls Congress and lives in its own reality, that's not likely for now. His supporters are still no better, thinking that the US withdrawing from the Paris Agreement is a victory against "global elites" (it isn't).

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I was born in the UK, lived in the US for most of my childhood and nearly all of my teens (there for over 14 years), now back in the UK since June 2010 due to family reasons. Motivated to blog, either about myself or things that interest me! Comments and/or e-mails are welcome!